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Название книги: Tinkers
Автор(ы): Paul Harding
Жанр: Современная проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Tinkers-150240.html
© 2009
For Meg, Samuel, and Benjamin
1
GEORGE WASHINGTON CROSBY BEGAN TO hallucinate eight days before he died. From the rented hospital bed, placed in the middle of his own living room, he saw insects running in and out of imaginary cracks in the ceiling plaster. The panes in the windows, once snugly pointed and glazed, stood loose in their sashes. The next stiff breeze would topple them all and they would flop onto the heads of his family, who sat on the couch and the love seat and the kitchen chairs his wife had brought in to accommodate everyone. The torrent of panes would drive everyone from the room, his grandchildren in from Kansas and Atlanta and Seattle, his sister in from Florida, and he would be marooned on his bed in a moat of shattered glass. Pollen and sparrows, rain and the intrepid squirrels he had spent half of his life keeping out of the bird feeders would breach the house.He had built the house himself-poured the foundation, raised the frame, joined the pipes, run the wires, plastered the walls, and
Название книги: Tinkers
Автор(ы): Paul Harding
Жанр: Современная проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Tinkers-150240.html
© 2009
For Meg, Samuel, and Benjamin
1
GEORGE WASHINGTON CROSBY BEGAN TO hallucinate eight days before he died. From the rented hospital bed, placed in the middle of his own living room, he saw insects running in and out of imaginary cracks in the ceiling plaster. The panes in the windows, once snugly pointed and glazed, stood loose in their sashes. The next stiff breeze would topple them all and they would flop onto the heads of his family, who sat on the couch and the love seat and the kitchen chairs his wife had brought in to accommodate everyone. The torrent of panes would drive everyone from the room, his grandchildren in from Kansas and Atlanta and Seattle, his sister in from Florida, and he would be marooned on his bed in a moat of shattered glass. Pollen and sparrows, rain and the intrepid squirrels he had spent half of his life keeping out of the bird feeders would breach the house.He had built the house himself-poured the foundation, raised the frame, joined the pipes, run the wires, plastered the walls, and
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